THE SQUARE APPOINTMENTS ALTERNATIVE
Looking for a Square Appointments alternative? Run the whole shop from one place
Switching from Square Appointments? Instinctor gives you a website that wins clients, plus online booking, reminders, memberships, checkout and a 24/7 smart chat. We build it for you, free.
WHY PEOPLE LEAVE SQUARE APPOINTMENTS
No real website. Square Appointments runs your back office, then leaves you to build a site elsewhere. Instinctor is the website that wins the client, built in.
Fees and commission. Square charges every month and takes a cut of new-client bookings. Instinctor starts free, with no per-booking fees, ever.
They keep your clients. Your clients live inside Square Appointments. With Instinctor you own your site, your data and your client list, for good.
More clients. More money. Less hassle
MORE, MADE SIMPLE
Your website and your back office, together
Instinctor gives your business a professional website plus online booking, reminders, memberships, branded checkout and a 24/7 smart chat, all in one place.
It does everything Square Appointments does, and adds the client-winning website they leave you to build yourself.
WHAT YOU GET
Everything it takes to run your business, in one place
No plugins to wire together, no five separate tools, no five bills. Each piece is built in and works with the rest.
Everything in one place
Your website, booking, payments, smart chat and marketing run from one dashboard. No five separate tools to wire together.
Online booking that fills your chair
A client books an appointment right from your site: the service and a time that works. It lands on your calendar, with a reminder set so they show up.
Online booking
Customers book and pay on your own site, around the clock. Your calendar fills itself, no phone tag.
A calendar your whole team can see
Put every chair and station on a shared calendar. Clients pick a time that works, your team sees the whole day at a glance.
Invoices and payments
Send branded invoices and take card payments in a tap. The money lands in your account, with no per-booking fees.
Branded checkout, deposits and tips
Take a deposit at booking to end no-shows, and let clients pay and tip by card. The money lands straight in your account, with nothing skimmed off the top.
Smart chat, 24/7
A chat assistant trained on your services and prices, answering questions and booking customers while you sleep.
Smart chat that answers 24/7
A chat assistant greets every visitor, answers questions about your services, prices and availability, and books the appointment while you are with a client.
Built to rank
Every site is built for Google from day one: clean structure, local SEO, page titles and sitemaps done right.
A website that ranks locally
A fast, professional site built to show up when someone nearby searches for your services in your area.
One system
Your site, bookings, calendar, checkout and chat all work together, and you own all of it.
One system, and you own it
Your site, bookings, calendar, checkout and chat share one login. Your client list is yours, never the marketplace’s.
WHY SWITCH
Win more clients, manage less
Square Appointments runs your bookings, then leaves you to build and pay for a real website somewhere else. Instinctor is the website that wins the client and the back office that runs it, on one bill.
InStudioSquare Appointments
- A website that wins clientsBuilt in, and built to rankA booking page, not a real website
- Who builds your websiteWe design it for you, freeYou get a template booking link
- Online booking and remindersBuilt inBuilt in
- Smart chat that answers 24/7Built inAn add-on, or none
- Memberships, packages and depositsBuilt inYes, sometimes with extra fees
- What you pay each monthFree, then $29.90/moMonthly, and up
- Commission on your clientsNoneCommon on marketplace bookings
- Who owns your site and clientsYou doTheir marketplace keeps them
ONE SIMPLE DEAL
We build it free. You approve it
We build you a website. Free. Everything included: full ecommerce, subscriptions, bookings, payments, Smart Chat and SEO. You pay only the standard costs every website has: domain, hosting, software license.
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QUESTIONS
Everything you might be wondering
Not unless you want to. Type your name and your site builds itself in one click, free, and it is yours to keep. Prefer it hands-off? Our team builds and runs the whole thing for you on the Managed plan.
Yes. On Managed, our team designs, launches and runs your site, booking and chat for you. Or do it yourself in a click, free, and upgrade whenever you like.
Deposits and automatic reminders on Pro stop flaky bookings from costing you money.
Yes. With Pro, clients book a guaranteed time day or night, straight from your real services and hours.
Yes. Salons, spas, studios, clinics and trades. It adapts to your services, your team and your prices.
Never. No per-booking fees and no percentage of your payments, on any plan.
Completely. Your bookings, your clients and your reputation are yours, and you can leave any time and take it all.
Your site is designed and built for you in days, and you review the finished site before it goes live.
We are here whenever you need a hand, whichever plan you are on.
No. free to start, Pro is month to month (about a dollar a day). Managed is month to month too.
They give you a booking page and charge monthly fees plus a cut of new-client bookings, then treat your clients as theirs. Here you get a real website, booking and chat, you keep your clients, and you pay no per-booking fees.
Free to start and keep. Pro is $29.90 a month (about a dollar a day) for online booking and texts. Hosting on your own domain is +$14.90 a month. The name itself stays yours: you register it, and we help you choose it and point it at the site. Managed, where we build and run it, is $79.90 a month. No per-booking fees, ever.
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